Ornamental ribbon



Nov. 3, 1936. .J. R. SEXTON- ET AL 2,059,285

ORNAMENTAL RIBBON Filed June 5,' 19:56

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* UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

onmnnn'rn. moon" John a. Sexton and town A. Vivari, Mei-men, Conn, assignors to J. B. Sexton Incorporated, Mcriden, Conn, a corporation of Connecticut Application June 5, 1930, Serial No. 33,644

.8Claims..(Cl.1i7-l-60) invention relates to the manufacture'of ribbon or cord provided for tying packages and boxes which it is desired shall present an attractive and ornamental appearance.

The object of this invention is the production of a flexible ribbon or cord which is simple to manufacture, is strong, and. that will have a brilliant and scintillating luster and sparkle.

This end is attained broadly, by forming a 1ami'nated body or core of a plurality of superposed strips, the outer strips being of transparent or colored or tinted translucent, flexible cellulose material which has a smooth, glossy, moistureproof surface, such for example as cellophane or celanese, and the inner strip or strips being of light reflecting material such as alahn or tinsel, and binding together these strips by an open spiral winding of lahn or of twisted or woven fibrous material, as rayon, which binding yarn tends to crinkle the strips with the result that the inner strip reflects light through the outer ment of strips before winding.

Fig. 6 shows an edge view of the unwound strips. Fig. 7 is a view of the last mentioned stripsbound together by a loose winding. 7

Fig. 8 is a transverse section showing a plurality of inner strips and wider outer'str'ips, before being wound.. V

Fig. 9 is a similar view showing the strips indicated in Fig. 8, bound together by a yarnwinding. 1n the particular embodiment of the invention first illustrated the core of the ribbon has anarrow center strip I of thin opaque bright or shiny 'lahn or metal tinsel. Each side of the'center strip is a thin wider strip 2 of transparent or translucent cellulose material, such as cellophane or celanesef. The outside strips may have the same tint or color, preferably the same. Wound in an open spiral about and binding these strips together is a line thread or yai'n 3 of rayon- The winding may have the same or. diflerent tint; or color as the outer strips, desirably the same.

The tension o! the ,windingis by choice such as" which case when the thread or'yarnfl is wound to crimp or-scallop the edges of the strips and cause the sections intermediate the windings to "bulge or swell out and become wave-like. As a result of such distortion of the core light is re- ,flected from the milled inner strip at various ann 'gles through the waved outer stripsand' is radiated as if thrown off by facets, the inner bright strips accentuating me'brilliancy of the-rays "118 f" flected' from the glassy surfaces of the tinted or]; colored cellulose strips. r

In the secondembodiment of the inventionjilj lustrated the center strip 4 and the outer ceuu;

lose strips 5 are 01 the same width and the thread or yarn winding 6 isnot tensioned as tightly as the winding of the above described ribbon. 15 this case the light rays flash brightly from the reflecting strip through the cellulose strips between the windings, but the ribbon does not have the sparkle that results'fromtight windings which crinkle the core.

Instead of having a single central strip between the surface strips there may be a number of 'in-' termediate strips I, and the outside strips 8 may be somewhat wider than the inside strips, in

tightly about the core the edges of the wide strips 25 c are puckered inward and thus the edges as well i 'as the flat faces are crinkled or scalloped so as to reflect light rays at different angles. I.

A ribbon inrmed according to this invention is so flexible and has considerable tensile strength,

and can be readily tied in plain knots ,or fancy bow knots.

The invention claimed V 1. A ribbon having a. laminated body. comprised 35 of flat outer strips of thin flexible light transmit-- ting cellulose material and an inner strip of thin flexible light reflecting material, said strips being "bound together and crinkled by an open spiral winding of flexible material. 4o 2. A ribbon having a laminated bodycomprised of flat outer strips of thin flexible light transmitting cellulose material and an inner strip of thin flexible metallic material, said strips being bound together and crinkled by an open spiral 45 of fibrous material. 1

3. A ribbon having a laminated body comprised of flat outer strips oi thin flexible light transmitting cellulose material and an inner strip of thin flexible light reflecting material, said strips being bound together tightly and crinkled by an open spiral winding of fibrous material.

i. A ribbon having a. laminated body comprised oI-outer strips 0! thin flexible light transmitmaterialandaninner strip of thin 5 flexible light reflecting material that is narrovver than the outer strips, said strips being bound togather and the edges of the outer strips crushed against the inner strip by an open spiral winding material.

6. A ribbon having a laminated body comprised of flat outer strips of thin flexible light transmitting material separated by thin flexible opaque material, said strips being bound tightly together and crinkled by an pen spiral winding of fibrous material.

'7. A ribbon having a laminated body comprised 01f flat outer strips of thin flexible light transmitting material separated by thin flexible opaque light reflecting material, said strips being bound together by an open spiral winding of lahn.

8. An ornamental ribbon having a laminated body comprised of strips of flat thin flexible light transmitting material and a flat strip of thin flexible light reflecting material, bound together and crinkled by an open spiral winding of flexible material. 7

JOHN R. SEXTON. JOSEPH A. VIVARI. 

